Daqin Engineers

The rod is almost another kind of catapult, but the throwing distance varies greatly.

This era is actually not suitable for installing trebuchets on ships for water warfare.

There are two reasons: one is that there is no room for the first two.

Perhaps the head is easy to understand, the trebuchet is not accurate even on land, and the new trebuchet is good for three out of ten shots.

If this catapult is moved to a warship...

The warship will fluctuate with the surface of the water, so the trebuchet will sway from side to side with the ship.

There is a saying called "A thousand miles to miss the slightest error." The long-range thing is the most taboo for instability in the bottom plate, even if it is only a little bit too far away from the target, it will be far from the target.

So if the catapult is moved to the ship, it is pure luck to hit the target.

As for the lack of space...In this era, small warships are commonly used, and this warship can't even put a trebuchet, let alone carry stone bullets.

It’s not impossible if you have to load catapults, such as a boat built with two warships together, or make the warship bigger and build a few more warships.

But then there will be a series of problems:

How many stone bullets is enough?

How many people do you need to carry the boat?

How many people do you need?

Plus arrows and other supplies...Is this ship suitable for navigating the river?

Can the speed keep up with other warships?

How to replenish the stone bullets if they are finished?

Then I sacrificed so much and managed to make it. The catapult still failed to hit 9 of 10 shots. Even if it was lucky, it would hit a 25-man enemy ship...I might as well drive it to knock it over. .

but it does not matter.

The trebuchet that requires space and stone bullets is not suitable, but this "stick rod" is suitable...

The advantage of the rod is that it can be used repeatedly: after the shot is taken, a few soldiers will lift the stone high up for the next time.

For example, when the Chu Shui Army fled, the wheeled warship caught up from behind.

Both armies went down the river and the wheel warships had the advantage of speed and could easily overtake the Chu army warships.

Then there was no need to shoot arrows at all, and with a fierce blow, a warship capsized in a scream, and then it overtook another ship, and then another ship...

In Shen Bing's eyes, it was as easy as a fly swattering a mosquito, and what Chu Jun could do besides archery was to try his best to avoid it.

However, avoidance requires speed. When the speed is not as fast, the Chu Army warship can only watch the Qin Army warship approaching and the huge boulder falls from the sky...

In the end, there was no way to escape, and some warships did not escape at all, stopped and dropped their bows and arrows to withdraw their shields and surrender.

The own Black Armor leaned forward to receive the prisoners.

The front army circumvented the ships and chased them all the way without stopping. After a quarter of an hour, another batch of ships came up along the waterway.

This batch of warships was exactly the two thousand navy troops that Xiang Yan sent for reinforcement.

The leader of this navy was Liang Jin, who was under the command of Xiang Yan, who saw the Chu Army's defeat from a distance and ordered his subordinates to play a banner to inform Zhang Yao's army to fight again.

But he didn't want Zhang Yao's direction but kept calling for withdrawal.

Liang Jin frowned and cursed:

"Why is Lieutenant Zhang so unbearable, after only a stick of incense, he was so embarrassed to lose!"

"Furthermore, the reinforcements and even our army is better than the enemy. What are you afraid of?"

After thinking about it, he ignored Zhang Yao's order, and shouted at the surroundings with his head high and majestic:

"The whole army listens to the order and prepares to meet the enemy!"

"When I wait for Qin Man to be killed, I will do my best to award rewards!"

The subordinates made preparations in response to the sound, the arrow wound the sword out of the sheath, and the oarsman strenuously paddled and accelerated the speed forward.

However, handsome in only three seconds...

In a short while, the fleet arrived in front of Liang Ming.

Only then did Liang Pu see the Qin Army warship that was chasing and fighting afterwards. The Chu Army warship that was close to it was either sunk or overturned. The river was full of the bodies of Chu Shui soldiers.

Liang Min was shocked:

"What is that? Actually..."

Before it could finish, Zhang Yao, who had fled from Yinghe, yelled at him:

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

"Qin Jun is great, I am not a rival!"

Liang Pu hesitated for a moment.

The reason why he hesitated was because he had just ordered the preparations for the war, and he also made a bold statement to kill the Qin army.

Wouldn't it be a shame to withdraw the army immediately before the battle started?

But he only hesitated for a moment, finally thinking that life is more important than face, so he hurriedly shouted:

"Withdraw troops, Mingjin will retreat!"

However, withdrawing troops at this time was not the right choice. Liang Ming's fleet was all over the river as soon as it turned around. Then Zhang Yao's fleet went down the current and was eager to escape. The ship was fast. Ships crashed into a ball.

Suddenly, the screams and wailing sounded, and many warships squeezed into a pile and circled in the river, and countless were knocked over and sunk.

Many sailors fell into the river and screamed for help, but they were wearing heavy bronze armor. They only had time to flutter in the water for a few times and then disappeared.

At this time, Shen Bing brought the warship to the front for a while, only to beat the Chu Shui Army.

Because the battlefield was out of Xiang Yan's line of sight, he didn't know much about the battle.

He just watched a few pieces of warship wreckage float up from time to time and couldn't help frowning... Xiang Yan recognized from the flag fragments on the warship that they were all Chu army warships.

Xiang Yan was puzzled:

Shouldn't the two armies fight each other with casualties?

Why are all the wrecks of the Chu Army warships all the way down?

When he was wondering, the Chu Shui Army, who had been killed in a mess, appeared in Xiang Yan's line of sight.

Looking from a distance, Xiang Yan saw that the Qin Army's battle flag was strictly rectified but the Chu Army was in chaos. He made a secret message and hurriedly ordered the retreat.

But at this time it was too late to retreat.

The main force of the Chu Shui Army who was fighting towards the city was similar to what Li Yan had encountered before. They were fighting right away with Li Yan's Shui Army.

Before they had time to respond, the Black Armored Army had already taken advantage of the situation, so there was another burst of bow and arrow flying with a rod and slamming...

After the war, military officer Chen Duan said that the 1,000 pioneers he led had even shot arrows. After that, they all relied on shooting poles to kill the enemy. Some warships damaged their shooting poles and had to board the Chu army ships to take arrows. Fight again...

This has never happened in the history of water wars in the Warring States Period. No arrow can kill an enemy ship to get an arrow?

On the one hand, it shows that the Chu army has been beaten to no morale. On the other hand, the Qin army is so arrogant that it can even be said to not take the enemy seriously.

Even Wei Wei sighed at Shen Bing when he watched this scene:

"The old man has never seen such a scene in decades."

"The weak soldiers in the past have now become tigers and wolves."

"The old man can't even believe that they are just placing soldiers."

"Oh! With this battle, the old army will have no regrets in his life."

Shen Bing only smiled.

If only such a battle satisfies you, then Wei Wei's appetite is too small.